Bicycle Safety: How to Not Get Hit by Cars

This page shows you real ways you can get hit and real ways to avoid them. This is a far cry from normal bicycle safety guides, which usually tell you little more than to wear your helmet and to follow the law. But consider this for a moment: Wearing a helmet will do absolutely nothing to prevent you from getting hit by a car. Sure, helmets might help you if you get hit, but your #1 goal should be to avoid getting hit in the first place. Plenty of cyclists are killed by cars even though they were wearing helmets. Ironically, if they had ridden without helmets, yet followed the advice on this page, they might still be alive today.

Bicycle Engineeringhome ARTICLES A forensic engineer investigates accidents to determine the causes of failure. In most cases the cause, whether it is easy or difficult to discover, is not a failure of engineering design, but of conditions that exceed the capabilities that have been designed into the bicycle or the facility, or of the operator. Bicycles are not expected to survive undamaged when being ridden against curbs, curves have a maximum safe speed, human beings cannot make decisions instantly.

Bicycle transportation engineeringEngineering for bicycles - From no provision in hostile environments... Engineering for bicycles - ... to dedicated cycle facilities... Engineering for bicycles - ... to providing environments in which cyclists and others can share the road safely. Bicycle transportation engineering is the sub-discipline of transportation engineering concerning bicycles as a mode of transport and the concomitant study, design and implementation of cycling infrastructure.

Buffered Bike Lanes - National Association of City Transportation OfficialsDescription Buffered bike lanes are conventional bicycle lanes paired with a designated buffer space separating the bicycle lane from the adjacent motor vehicle travel lane and/or parking lane. A buffered bike lane is allowed as per MUTCD guidelines for buffered preferential lanes (section 3D-01). Click on the images below to view 3D concepts of conventional bike lanes. The configuration shown is based on New York City, NY, and Portland, OR, examples.

Everything You Need to Know About Cycling JeansTracey is wearing Dish performance denim Skinny Dark Stone jeans. Photo by David Niddrie. How do you wear your jeans? Perhaps you don’t wear them at all. You may have given up on them years ago when you found that the twill weave cotton was tough and yet delicate at the same time, strangling your quads while wearing out against your saddle. Classic jeans can be particularly ill-suited for everyday biking.

Grapefruit juice interaction with drugs can be deadly - HealthMore prescription drugs are on the market that can interact with grapefruit juice with potentially serious effects including sudden death, Canadian doctors warn. David Bailey, a clinical pharmacologist at the Lawson Health Research Institute in London, Ont., discovered the interaction between grapefruit and certain medications more than 20 years ago. Since then, he said, the number of drugs with the potential to interact has jumped to more than 85. Grapefruit juice is known to interact with some types of medications, leading to an overdose hazard. Bailey reviews new product monographs and prescribing information for the Canadian Pharmacists Association, and keeps a close eye on those with the potential to produce serious adverse reactions.

Cycling jeans: five of the bestHowies Road denim jeans (£80.10, wiggle.co.uk) These look to all intents just like a regular jean – albeit cut for the Hoys among us, the track cyclists with over-developed thighs – but they do have a few tricks hidden up their trouserleg. First is the reflective chevrons that are exposed when you roll up your right leg. Then you notice that they make a noise, the telltale rustle of a fabric that is waterproof, or at least water-repellent; Epic denim offers protection against everything from UV rays to mosquitoes to water, but it is a little bit ‘crunchy’ like a waterproof jacket. Still, when I got caught in a downpour on my 30 minute commute I didn’t mind a bit: I arrived at work, shook off the raindrops, sat down and got on with my day. Ideal.

Why it makes sense to bike without a helmet — Howie Chong : Howie ChongOver half of all head injuries occur in motor vehicles and more people were hospitalized after walking down the street than riding on a bicycle. Consider another statistic: According to a 2006 French study, pedestrians are 1.4 times more likely to receive a traumatic brain injury than unhelmeted cyclists. We can also approach it from the perspective of injuries per million hours from a 1996 Australian study looking at head injury risk before the beginning of any helmet laws:Bike rental locationsLogin or Register with Facebook or Register with an Email AddressTrack And Analyze Your Performance And ProgressProductsDownloadsLicensesRowingOarbitsSupportAboutLinksDistributorsKeeping track of your rowing To confirm you're getting the results you want, it's essential to track and analyze your rowing over time. The best approach is to log all your rowing in a form that lends itself to statistics and analysis so you can see trends. That's why Digital Rowing has built RowPro to track every stroke as you row, so you can check and analyze your progress anytime by simply looking at RowPro reports. What to track?